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Letter "L" » last half
«From compromise and things half done, Keep me with stern and stubborn pride; And when at last the fight is won, God, keep me still unsatisfied»
Author: Louis Untermeyer
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compromise, last half, stern, sterner, sternest, stubborn, unsatisfied, unsatisfying
«Sin has always been an ugly word, but it has been made so in a new sense over the last half-century. It has been made not only ugly but pass?. People are no longer sinful, they are only immature or underprivileged or frightened or, more particularly, sick.»
Author: Phyllis McGinley
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frightened, half-century, immature, last century, last half, sinful, underprivileged
«Grow old along with me! The best is yet to be, the last of life, for which the first was made. Our times are in his hand who saith, 'A whole I planned, youth shows but half; Trust God: See all, nor be afraid!'»
Author: Robert Browning
(Poet)
| About:
Age
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First hand, half time, last half, old hand, planned
«His finest hour lasted a minute and a half»
«I have treated many hundreds of patients. Among [those] in the second half of life-that is to say, over 35-there has not been one whose problem in the last resort was not that of finding a religious outlook on life.»
Author: Carl Gustav Jung
(Founder, Psychologist)
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hundreds, last half, last resort, outlook, patients, religious, resort, resorted, resorting, second half, that is to say, The Last Resort, The Second, treated
«A child can go only so far in life without potty training. It is not mere coincidence that six of the last seven presidents were potty trained, not to mention nearly half of the nation's state legislators.»
Author: Dave Barry
(Humorist, Writer)
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coincidence, last half, legislator, legislators, mention, nation state, not to mention, potty-trained, potty, Presidents, The Nation, trained
«Much of the ill-tempered railing against women that has characterized the popular writing of the last two years is a half-hearted attempt to find a way back to a more balanced relationship between our biological selves and the world we have built. So women are scolded both for being mothers and for not being mothers, for wanting to eat their cake and have it too, and for not wanting to eat their cake and have it too.»
Author: Margaret Mead
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balanced, cake, characterized, hearted, ill-tempered, ill temper, last half, railing, railings, scold, scolded, scolding, selves, tempered, The Popular
«The first half of life consists of the capacity to enjoy without the chance; the last half of life consists of the chance without the capacity»
Author: Mark Twain
(Humorist, Lecturer, Writer)
| About:
Chance
| Keywords:
capacity, first half, last half
«Our law very often reminds one of those outskirts of cities where you cannot for a long time tell how the streets come to wind about in so capricious and serpent-like a manner. At last it strikes you that they grew up, house by house, on the devious tracks of the old green lanes; and if you follow on to the existing fields, you may often find the change half complete.»
«Start at once a bedside library and spend the last half hour of the day in communion with the saints of humanity.»
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